Libguides is a curating platform created by Springshare and used by libraries across the world to share content, curate websites, information and resources with their users. The possibilities are endless with how you can use this platform and only limited, really, by your imagination. Scotch College in Perth, Western Australia offers a fantastic example of the possibilities that Libguides offer their users.
When you first go to the Libguide you are greeted with a choice of libraries: Junior; Middle; or Senior. Working in a senior library myself, I was interested in how they use Libguides for their Senior Library. What I found was an extremely easy to navigate visual presentation of resources available for the lucky students of Scotch College. The Libguide offers a central portal to all material that the library has collated. Including: Best Books for Teens, eBooks/audio, Library Catalogue (Oliver), Staff Reading, Research Guides, Databases, Referencing. Databases are password protected, which is to be expected for licensing laws. Through this guide, there are many links to videos, websites and other curating tools such as Goodreads. The library management system used by the school, Oliver, is seamlessly integrated into the pages.
Viewing this Libguide has set off a myriad of ideas for how we can better use our own Libguide pages. Thank you Scotch college for allowing the public to access to your libguide.
Scotch College’s Libguides https://library.scotch.wa.edu.au/researchguides
Scotch College. (2016). library.SCOTCH. Retrieved from https://library.scotch.wa.edu.au/
Springshare. (2017). LibGuides – Content management and curation platform for libraries. Retrieved from https://www.springshare.com/libguides/